Archives - 17 February 2013, Sunday

Kim Dotcom yesterday announced that the Mega storage service is now accepting payment via bitcoins , an encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency that isn't backed by any government. While Mega allows free access to 50GB of storage, there are payment plans allowing anywhere from 500GB ...

Mega update: Dotcomâs service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile kim dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on twitter. on saturday, he announced bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting mega is...

As an organization that has never found itself particularly friendly with governments, it makes sense that Mega would want to accept what is essentially the "Internet currency" and those out there who trade in 'coins are probably glad to see their currency accepted. Now, will this len...

Some time ago Gregory Maxwell proposed the idea of autonomous programs that maintain their own Bitcoin wallet. He gave the concrete example of StorJ, a program that provides encrypted file hosting capacity a la MEGA. By buying server time from VPS providers and re-selling services, pu...

Kim Dotcom is back in his favorite position of drawing attention, making announcements and touting his new storage service, Mega. Dotcom has announced on Twitter that his cloud storage site will begin to accept Bitcoin as payment for services. It was also announced that there may be e...

Bitcoin (sign: BTC) is a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source protocol, created by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto.[7][1] One bitcoin is divided into 100-million smaller units called satoshis.[3] There is a hard limit of 21-million bitcoins in total, ...